Section: AlterNet (USA)
ICE Has No Plans to Deport This WWII-Era Nazi War-Criminal Immigrant
A former Nazi guard continues to live quietly in Queens while ICE kicks law-abiding immigrants out of the U.S. every day. For the past few days, Donald Trump has spent much of his time on social media railing against immigrants and DACA, a policy his tweets prove he does not understand even a little bit. While the president persists in riling his...
How Online Propaganda Became Mainstream
Click here for reuse options! Snyder’s new book asserts that we forget the past at our own peril (and that the robots are winning). After the 2016 election, Timothy Snyder, a Yale historian specializing in totalitarian regimes in eastern Europe, wrote a heralded pamphlet titled On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Snyder...
6 Questions for A.G. Sulzberger, the New Publisher of the New York Times
Will the Times continue to go to bat for ill-fated wars? Dear Mr. Sulzberger:Congratulations on assuming the reins of this nation’s — and arguably, the world’s — most influential publication. It’s the family business, of course, so your appointment to succeed your father doesn’t exactly qualify as a surprise....
Cambridge Analytica Is Proud That It Swayed and Corrupted Elections Across the Globe
It would be a dangerous mistake to assume that the United States was the data analytics firm’s only target. Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm based in the United Kingdom, has been a topic of heated debate in data science for a while. Now the consulting firm has gained a fresh wave of heightened notoriety after one of its previous...
Putin Claims ‘Jews’ Could be Behind US Election Meddling
US intelligence chiefs last month said Russia still seeks to meddle in US politics. President Vladimir Putin suggested in a US television interview that Ukrainians, Tatars or “Jews,” could have meddled in the 2016 US presidential election — but not the Kremlin. “Why have you decided the Russian authorities, myself...
Donald Trump’s Relentless Fixer: The Many Mysterious Doings of Michael Cohen
Why Trump is so worried about Stormy Daniels remains unclear. But if Michael Cohen is involved, it must be serious. If there is one person lurking around the shadows of every Trump scandal, it would be his personal lawyer Michael Cohen, known as the Tom Hagen of the Trump family, only with much less class and dignity than the original consigliere...
Is Donald Trump Fueling a Mass Extinction of Democracy Across the Planet?
The warning signs are there, cautions “How Democracies Die” co-author Steven Levitsky. Earlier this week, during a freewheeling speech to Republican donors at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump cracked the following joke about Chinese leader Xi Jinping: “He’s now president for life. President for life. No, he’s great. And...
Income Inequality in the U.S. Is Even Worse Than You’ve Been Led to Believe
Click here for reuse options! Data show the country is failing its lower and middle-income earners miserably. The more the ultra-rich prosper, the less they’re burdened with taxes, the greater the benefits for society as a whole. If you’re familiar with Republican economic theory of the past 40 years, you’ve probably heard this...
How Silicon Valley’s Capitalist Greed Continues to Cheat Creators and Rob American Culture
It’s time to poke holes in the weak argument for why YouTube and other social media platforms aren’t held accountable for copyright violation or slanderous content. First, they came for the music, and we did not speak out—because most are not musicians.Then they came for the news, and we did not speak out—because most are not...
Is Nikki Haley Angling for Rex Tillerson’s Job? (Or Trump’s?)
The U.S. ambassador to the UN is wildly ambitious, and her political stock is on the rise. Back in October, Nikki Haley insisted that she didn’t want to take Rex Tillerson’s job. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations told CNN that she “would not take” the promotion to secretary of state even if President Trump offered it to her....
